CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX is aiming for both a launch and landing within minutes of each other Sunday. The California-based company led by billionaire Elon Musk is set to launch an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket at sunset from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On board is the Deep Space Climate Observatory, …
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One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of-a-kind eclipse. The rare and fleeting spectacle, late Monday into early Tuesday, should be visible to millions of people along a narrow path stretching from …
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These sights are truly out of this world. The rings of Saturn. Gaseous, swirling Jupiter and its tiny moons. The dying remnants of a long-ago supernova. The amazing winners of the third annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition were announced last week from over 800 entries. Spectacular images of …
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Following a few hours delay and an aborted initial attempt, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket — one of an emerging class of private rockets intended to take the U.S. space program into the 21st century — finally took to the skies. The Falcon 9 is carrying a mock-up of the company’s …
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We are not alone in the universe — and alien life forms may have a lot more in common with life on Earth than we had previously thought. That’s the stunning conclusion one NASA scientist has come to, releasing his groundbreaking revelations in a new study in the March edition …
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